pretty good idea of course only useful for those who want the battery life system,however imagine if you needed to find a headlamp and this is the only thing you have at start,the intensity would be some real chills in the spine.

Yep,take your time and make small and constant updates.Don't plan for a full full release at the very moment.You can also go a bit in the future(not lasers and space ****) in terms of the theme.Maybe you can be the first to have a separate button for the hover mode in the F-35.

I just want to say,please don't try to do any big release,small and constant is better than larger and slow which can lead to the mod being dead.Notice how Project Reality and Desert Combat started off?They took the vanilla gameplay and made tweaks and from there took their time and keep releasing new versions until they reached to the big success they are now.Don't recreate the entire game only to find yourself with one big waste of a project.Take from vanilla and start from there.

It would be best to just get rid of the ticket count and flags from the Minimap and have it at the right hand top corner as a separate HUD.Would also be better if you have the player health under the armor health bar to make the HUD shorter.Along with the Health under the ammo bar for Infantry.